I’ve been using GnuCash for five or six years now, and by and large it works very well for me. The one thing that I still find somewhat annoying is poor baysean matching of imported transactions to scheduled ones on my credit cards. Maybe 80-85% of everything matches perfectly, but there are a few items which seem to never match. Typical example is my water/storm/garbage bill. It tends to vary by +/- $10 every month. The Bayes filter almost never matches it (due to the price variance I assume), and the “right” one doesn’t show up in the manual match list if I try to match manually (minimum to display currently set at 1). Often I’ll get some other transaction in the list which has a closer price, but wrong description/text. Usually that other transaction was matched by Bayes to some other transaction in the import, which is extra frustrating; You can’t reconcile 2 imported transactions to the same scheduled one!
Similar issue with my contributions to college savings plans for 2 children. Same price, only difference is the account# in the description field. Bayes /always/ matches both incoming transactions to the lexically-sorted first one of the 2 scheduled Tx in my register. Looking for some way to force-train the bayes DB better: - Temporarily lower the filter enough for the right transaction to show up - Have Bayes re-match when I do something like set the proper expense account for the new transaction - Some way to “force match” the two transactions after the initial import (and kill the duplicate) - Figure out how to update my scheduled Transaction so it’ll show up “above the line” and I can select it. Open to any ideas/guidance. I see from the release notes that 3.0 is supposed to have new/better Bayes support; will that help me resolve this? Thanks for any/all assistance! —Evan _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
